Flash Fiction Magazine

I discovered yesterday that my story has been shortlisted for the Lunate Fiction Flash Prize, judged by EllipsisZine Editor, Steve Campbell. Very exciting news!

Flash Prize Longlist

Another story was also published today by Lunate Fiction – A Place of Unfinished Sentences

A Place of Unfinished Sentences

The woman sitting opposite me looks like the guy I used to date. Her face is angular, her eyes fixed to the page of a book I cannot see. I wonder why she reminds me of him, and whether her features are particularly masculine, or his more feminine; maybe both. The door clunks back into the frame of the train’s carriage. A thud as it stops makes me jump and a man with a trolley walks through and scans the seats.

“Tea? Coffee?” he asks, glancing at the ex-boyfriend lookalike.

“Neither,” she says, her eyes remaining fixed on the pages in her hands.

He looks at me. “Coffee, black, no sugar,” I say, without waiting to be asked. He lowers his shoulders, exhaling slowly as he pours me a cup from a large metal coffee pot. Steam rises from the spout, the scent of it licking at my nostrils. Saliva fills my mouth in anticipation….continued at Lunate.co.uk

And, in case you missed this one, Do You See Me Coming, was also published in July at the new Burnt Breakfast Magazine.

Do You See Me Coming?

Do you see me coming, when the days are short and the nights feverish, when the family gathers round, wondering whether to call the doctor or let you slip away, peacefully. Do you see me coming when the flicker of evening light reminds you that your ancestors are beckoning you home. You think about your childhood and remember days where you came inside, covered in dirt and Mother shooed you away with a flap of a hand, and the smell of creosote where Father had painted the fence. You loved the smell but you weren’t supposed to. It was toxic, you were told, but you also loved the hot scent of tarmac. You always liked the things that you weren’t supposed to. You remember the way the swallows came in to nest then left, like Father, when I had come to him, too. He saw me coming. The rest of you only saw me leave, taking him with me …. continued at Burnt Breakfast

Stories published in online journals

Short stories are the heartbeat of many writers. I intersperse writing short stories with writing and editing novels. My second novel is now complete and edited. Below is a list of my recent publications and some links to other stories I have enjoyed reading.

Is He?, Mojave Heart Journal, February 2019

Lavender, Synaeresis Issue 5, January 2019

You Listen to the Sound of Gulls, EllipsisZine, December 2018

Your House is too Small, Spillwords, November 2018

Classic Short Stories for Fiction Writers

Stories I Have Enjoyed Reading in Recent Publications

I Eat the Flowers on Your Grave by Barbara Lovric, Anti-Heroin Chic

Bullseye by Meg Pogkrass, Fictive Dream

Sanctus Spiritus, 1512 by Sarah Arantza Amador, Cheap Pop Lit

Against the Grain by Tara Isabel Zambrano, Wigleaf

The Mightiest Mammal, Singing by Kate Finegan, Pigeonholes

Senna by Steve Campbell, FlashBack Fiction

Screaming Story by Deve Murphy, Jellyfish Review

In November 2017 by S.L. Bailey, SmokeLong Quarterly

And if you’d like to read more….

Best Microfiction List

Sarah Arantza Amador, “Sanctus Spiritus, 1512” (Cheap Pop)
Anita Arlov, “He She It They” (National Flash Fiction Day NZ)
Jessica Barksdale, “Knock Knock” (Matchbook)
Roberta Beary, “Swimming in Circles” (KYSO Flash)
Matt Bell, “The Hungerer” (Wigleaf)
Dick Bentley, “Health Care” (Serving House Journal)
Gregory Brown, “Birdhouse” (PRISM International)
Cavin Bryce, “Fragments of Evolution” (Cheap Pop)
Tetman Callis, “Candlelight and Flowers” (NY Tyrant)
Mike Chin, “Training” (Passages North)
Myfanwy Collins, “Euthanasia” (Jellyfish Review)
Tim Craig, “Northern Lights” (Bath Flash Fiction Award)
Tommy Dean, “You’ve Stopped” (Pithead Chapel)
Olga Dermott Bond, “Mr Rochester and I” (Bath Flash Fiction v3)
Leonora Desar, “Fire, Ocean” (TSS)
Leonora Desar, “My Father’s Girlfriend” (Matchbook Lit)
Leonora Desar, “The Monkey” (Reflex Fiction)
Will Finlayson, “The Strip Club” (Southampton Review)
Valerie Fox, “Even the Christmas Tree was Nicer That Year” (Across the Margins)
Sarah Freligh, “Any Body” (Cincinatti Review)
Frances Gapper, “Plum Jam” (Flashback Fiction)
Jo Gatford, “Things Left And Found By The Side Of The Road” (Bath Flash Fiction Award)
Christopher Gaumer, “He Died We Left Him Til Morning” (The Citron Review)
Beth Gilstrap, “Becky” (Pithead Chapel)
Beth Gilstrap, “Bone Words” (Longleaf Review)
Melissa Goode, “Empire of Light” (Gone Lawn)
Melissa Goode, “I Wanna Be Adored ” (Cheap Pop)
Melissa Goode, “Tonight, We Are Awake” (Wigleaf)
Anita Goveas, “Frau Roentgen’s Left Hand” (Flashback Fiction)
Anita Goveas, “Let’s Sing All the Swear Words We Know ” (Lost Balloons)
Tina May Hall, “The Extinction Museum: Exhibit #28 (incandescent bulb, unlit)The Collagist” (The Collagist)
Toni Halleen, “Not the Whole Story” (Wigleaf)
Steven John, “A Brief History of Time in Our House” (Ad Hoc Fiction)
Peter Krumbach, “11.37” (The Adroit Journal)
Meghan Lamb, “Missing” (Passages North)
Raven Leilani, “Kanekalon” (Split Lip)
Page Leland, “Self Portrait with Early December” (Former Cactus)
Robert Lopez, “A Warm Motherly Look” (Wigleaf)
Paul Luikart, “Breathless” (Brilliant Flash Fiction)
Fiona Mackintosh, “Siren” (Bath Flash Fiction Award)
Fiona Mackintosh, “The Chemistry of Living Things” (Fish Publishing)
Lutivini Majanja, “Am Inheritance” (Flash Frontier)
Prosper Makara, “Lessons from my Mother” (Afreada– Africa’s Literary Magazine)
Dan Malakoff, “Loop-the-Loop” (Wigleaf)
Michael Martone, “Boom” (Always Crashing)
Michael Martone, “Klaus Weber, Curb House Numberer” (The Collagist)
Kathleen McGookey, “You Can Find Joy in Doing Laundry” (KYSO)
Adam McOmber, “A Roman Road” (Atticus Review)
Heather McQuillan, “A post-traumatic god” (Menicus)
KC Mead-Brewer, “It’s Shaped like a Grin, They Say” (Cheap Pop)
Jose Enrique Medina, “Niňos de La Tierra” (Burnside Review)
Tracy Lynne Oliver, “This Weekend” (Fanzine)
Dominica Phetteplace, “After the Flood Waters Came” (Wigleaf)
Meghan Phillips, “Abstinence Only” (Passages North)
Megan Phillips, “Final Girl Slumber Party” (Barrelhouse)
Kristen Ploetz, “LifeColor Indoor Latex Paints® — Whites and Reds (R)” (JMWW)
Claire Polders, “Breathlessness” (Moonpark Review)
Dina Relles, “And Sometimes We Meet” (Matchbook)
Belinda Rimmer, “Domestic” (Anti-Heroin Chic)
Nicole Rivas, “Crumbs” (The Cincinnati Review)
Becky Robison, “Baby Dolls” (Pank)
Brad Rose, “Desert Motel” (Pithead Chapel)
Sarah Salway, “Not Sorry” (Cincinnati Review)
Kim Samsin, “World’s Finest” (Matchbook)
Noa Sivan, “The End of the World” (Synaesthesia Magazine)
Rachel Smith, “What I Now Know” (Flash Frontier)
Rachel Smith, “Glossectomy” (Menicus)
Joe Squance, “The Seeds of Things” (Cease, Cows)
Elizabeth Stix, “Tsunami” (Southampton Review)
Paul Strohm, “Masculinities” (West Marin Review)
Xenia Taiga, “Princesses” (Synaesthesia Magazine)
Kaj Tanaka, “The Hair Child” (Bending Genres)
Sharon Telfer, “My Father Comforts Me in the Form of Birds” (Reflex Fiction Magazine)
Jamie Thunder, “The Central Line Has Severe Delays” (Spelk)
Cathy Ulrich, “The Delicate Art of Ikebana” (Barren Magazine)
TM Upchurch, “There Will Be No Lace” (Flashback Fiction)
Zach VandeZande, “Making an Illegal U Turn on 15th near Union” (Monkeybicycle)
Elisabeth Ingram Wallace, “Satin Nightwear for Women Irregular” (Bath Flash Fiction Award)
Clare Weze, “Helping” (Reflex Fiction)
Charmaine Wilkerson, “The Laundry Room Comes First” (Fiction Southeast)
Benjamin Woodard, “Half Tank” (Atticus Review)
Luke Wortley, “Reverse Field Trip” (Longleaf)
Tara Isabel Zambrano, “Feeding Time” (Okay Donkey)
Tara Isabel Zambrano, “New Old” (The Southampton Review)
Tara Isabel Zambrano, “Snowstorm” (Atticus Review)
C Pam Zhang, “Braindrain” (Paper Darts)

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Shortlisted in Lunate Fiction Flash Prize and two more publications